English basic vocabular 3
Standard english vocabular for beginners and lower intermediate
Standard english vocabular for beginners and lower intermediate
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road pricing - (Road pricing is not a popular concept with the public.)
second-hand - (There's a terrific second-hand clothes shop on Water Street.)
sense - (There are many different senses of a word in the dictionary.)
sequence - (The questions should be asked in a logical sequence.)
signpost - (The village isn't very well signposted.)
solar - (Solar power can only partly replace conventional electrical power for the home.)
source - (They get their money from various sources.)
tax - (The government are thinking of increasing the tax on fuel.)
tax - (The EU is going to tax airlines.)
thank goodness - (Thank goodness I've got a car and don't have to use public transport.)
thermostat - (Ken had thermostats fitted to the radiators so he could control the temperature.)
thinker - (The book was about great thinkers such as Kant and Schopenhauer.)
threat (to be under) - (Tropical forests are under threat from the people who live there who need land.)
trainee - (The trainees start next week.)
transport - (Buses are transporting the passengers from the airport to the city.)
trapped - (The sun's heat is trapped by pollution and warms the air around the Earth.)
turn down - (Lily was too hot, so she turned down the thermostat.)
warmth - (The dog was in the garden, enjoying the warmth of the summer sun.)
waste - (We have to recycle household waste.)
wealthy - (He left as a poor, working class boy and returned as an extremely wealthy man.)
wind turbine - (Wind turbines are modern windmills.)
wise - (It's wise to check whether the flight times have changed before you leave for the airport.)
acquire - (He lived in Spain for six months but he didn't acquire much Spanish.)
admirable - (They have done an admirable job.)
apparently - (Apparently the company is losing a lot of money.)
badge - (We were each given a badge with our name on it.)
belt - (She was wearing a silver belt.)
bother - (It's an old car, but it's never caused me any bother.)
chance - (There's always the chance that something will go wrong.)
claim to fame - (His only claim to fame is that he appeared on Big Brother!)
comfortable - (He isn't exactly rich, but you could say that his lifestyle is comfortable.)
corduroy - (Jack bought himself a corduroy jacket.)
dreadful - (We've had some dreadful weather lately.)
dreamland - (The kids are both far away in dreamland.)
drop out of - (He told his parents he wanted to drop out of university and get a job.)
equivalent - (Are A-levels equivalent to the International Baccalaureate?)
estimate - (She estimated that the journey would last about an hour.)
fair - (All we are asking for is a fair wage.)
fake - (The model is wearing a fake fur coat.)
fame - (Streisand won fame as a singer before she became an actress.)
